The new members of the executive board are Ole Orvér as chief commercial officer and Nicklas Ilebrand as SVP for strategy.

Currently president and chief executive of DFDS, Niels Smedegaard has been nominated as Norwegian’s chairman of the board.

After just a year in place as Norwegian’s chief financial officer, Geir Karlsen has been promoted in a signalled generational shift.

Cho Yang-ho was a distinguished figure in the airline industry, but his position was overshadowed in recent years by family scandals.

TUI Group has appointed Anna Laestadius as its new global chief creative officer, but she still remains part of the Nordic board.

Niels Smedegaard is to leave the ferry and shipping giant at the end of next month, to be replaced by Torben Carlsen.

The home-sharing giant has hired Fred Reid as its new transport chief, in an effort to “make travel easier and even fun”.

After senior finance jobs at Microsoft and the casino operator Olympic, Kristi Ojakäär starts a new direction in aviation today.

The Nordic hotel giant has promoted Søren Faerber, formerly responsible for Copenhagen, who has a Hard Rock background.

Anna Strömwall, who starts her new job at Landvetter next month, has previously been head of security screening at Stockholm Arlanda.

Dominique Leroux joins Infare as vice president of marketing from being responsible for marketing at Sabre in Asia Pacific.

Jens Mathiesen has been the group’s chief executive for Denmark, replacing the ousted Even Frydenberg.

In an industry painfully short of women leaders, Anne Rigail now has the task of dealing with the airline’s powerful unions.

Bogi Nils Bogason had been interim CEO and before that was the carrier’s chief financial officer for ten years.

Thomas Andersson takes the top job of running the services and berths for ferry and cruise traffic in the city’s three ports.

Human resources specialist Helga Bollmann Leknes has been appointed the carrier’s chief commercial officer.

Chief commercial officer and a member of the executive board, Juha Järvinen will move on to Virgin Atlantic.

Eurblarp Sriphiromya has worked for the Tourism Authority of Thailand in posts around the world for 25 years.

Coming from jobs at companies like Carlsberg, Nespresso and Hurtigruten, Geir Kronbæck now leads RCL in Scandinavia.

British tailoring expert Ozwald Boateng has been enlisted to design a new set of uniforms for British Airways.